Bye bye, baby

Well, another milestone today (so to speak...) my beloved 6.1L Hemi was plopped on the BOT to be taken to the body shop for mock up and stuff.  It was a not as difficult to get in the truck as initially expected and wrapped in a nice tarp in case of a stray shower:

Once there, they picked it out of the bed with a lift and put it on a engine stand:

now they will hook the tranny to the engine and finish off the mounts and stuff and all sorts of other things that girls should know anything about!!!

here is the progress on the making the transmission tunnel accept the MONSTER transmission:

seats and a small loss of a dream (sort of not really)

And Finally on the “good news bad news” category, the interior of the Chrysler 300 we had gotten is going to kind of work and no not at all!!  LOL!!  The rear seats are looking good:

  

Here is the seat without the necessary bracing that Mike had to fabricate:

 and the bracing for under the rear seat portion:

 

 And the seat with the bracing in place

 

But the all power front seats that have a memory that adjusts to whomever program it, will not work.  And while the front seats LOOK great; I guess we are missing the module to make that memory work and the wiring is entirely too complicated for this poor little girl, SO….  enjoy these mock up photos because....

 

We are going to use the front seats from a 2005 Sebring Convertible!

They are completely manual, no airbags, and not only have the shoulder seatbelt integrated into them, they will also allow passengers into the back seat.  The 300 was a 4 door car and we knew the seats would never really allow easy access to the rear seat, but with just us the back seat is not going to be used a whole terrible bunch, so it was a sacrifice we were willing to make!  However, it was not meant to be, so we went with slightly less posh seats, and all will be re-covered to match and look fabulous!!

Undercoatings and other thigns

 So things are progressing nicely with the Coronet!!  We’ve made great strides forward and Mike is doing an AWESOME job!!!  My hours at work changed, so forgive this late posting!!

Here are some photos of the underside of the car.  We are using the LizardSkin undercoating, 

before:

 and after:

Also we got a bracing kit to help strengthen the frame just in case a little lead foot HAPPENS to drop the hammer down….  I wouldn’t know who that would be!!